Uploading a photo

Dan Steely · 06-05-2025 01:16AM #1

If I take a photo with my phone and upload it to a post does the Exif data go with it? If someone downloads the image from boards will the data still be attached?

Victor · 06-05-2025 01:39AM

Quite possibly yes.

Take a photo in town and post it.

Lucien_Sarti · 06-05-2025 10:38AM

A while back, a lad who was later banned for having many accounts simultaneously, uploaded an iPhone photo of his dinner (plate) one evening. Not only did the latitutude, longitude info give his precise house address, it also showed it was taken in the rear of the house i.e. the kitchen/dining room. The town matched with other details he had posted eg. constituency and local TD 🙀😃

Doing a "Save as" to another file format before uploading should eliminate the extra data.

Spear · 06-05-2025 05:36PM

Mike has said in the past that that images uploaded via the Vanilla built in hosting and CDN are auto scrubbed of their EXIF data. I've checked the last days worth of images from the classic cars thread and all of them show no EXIF data present, so it seems to still be working.

Does anyone have any verifiable examples of images not being scrubbed?

Obviously if you host the images elsewhere then there's no guarantees.

Dan Steely · 06-05-2025 05:47PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123423173#Comment_123423173

Thanks, that's good to know. Might screenshot the photo just in case. :)

Uploading a photo

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Uploading a photo

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James Connolly, The Irish Flag (1916)Common Prosperity, China (2021)

James Connolly, The Irish Flag (1916)
Common Prosperity, China (2021)